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By Chris Jordan
Published by: Prestel
Pub. Date: April 2009
Hardcover
111 pages
Running the Numbers is a kind of translation, from the deadening language of statistics into a more universal visual language that might allow for more feeling. the underlying aim is to question our roles and responsibilities as individuals in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming. - Chris Jordan
Statistics can be daunting but dry: 100 million trees cut down every year to make the paper for junk mail; 380,000 kilowatt hours of electricity wasted every five minutes; 2 million plastic bottles used every five minutes; 2.3 million Americans incarcerated in U.S. prisons in a single year. Renowned photographer Chris Jordan brings these staggering numbers to life in manipulated digital photographs that are at once alluring and shocking. A landscape of toothpicks, each representing a felled tree, stretches into the horizon; a looping maze of plastic cups reveals how many are used every six hours on airplane flights; and a replica of a Seurat masterpiece fashioned from aluminum cans becomes a lesson in waste. These astonishing photographs of great beauty reveal the devastating consequences of our culture of consumption. As Paul Hawken notes, Jordan's images are "a supplication to all who look upon them, to harm no more, to be mindful in all that we do, speak, and take."
This richly illustrated volume includes essays by Chris Bruce, Paul Hawken, and Lucy R. Lippard that place Jordan's work within larger contexts of th history of photography, art activism, and environmentalism, and make passionate arguments for the importance and urgency of this artist's message.
Chris Jordan's work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and was recently shortlisted for the first annual Prix Pictet in Paris. Other recent exhibitions include In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster. Jordan lives in Seattle.
Running the Numbers was printed in China by Artron color Printing, Ltd., using soy-based inks on 170gsm Perigord paper, an acid-free, EDF, FSC-certified matt art paper.
Published by: Prestel
Pub. Date: April 2009
Hardcover
111 pages
Running the Numbers is a kind of translation, from the deadening language of statistics into a more universal visual language that might allow for more feeling. the underlying aim is to question our roles and responsibilities as individuals in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming. - Chris Jordan
Statistics can be daunting but dry: 100 million trees cut down every year to make the paper for junk mail; 380,000 kilowatt hours of electricity wasted every five minutes; 2 million plastic bottles used every five minutes; 2.3 million Americans incarcerated in U.S. prisons in a single year. Renowned photographer Chris Jordan brings these staggering numbers to life in manipulated digital photographs that are at once alluring and shocking. A landscape of toothpicks, each representing a felled tree, stretches into the horizon; a looping maze of plastic cups reveals how many are used every six hours on airplane flights; and a replica of a Seurat masterpiece fashioned from aluminum cans becomes a lesson in waste. These astonishing photographs of great beauty reveal the devastating consequences of our culture of consumption. As Paul Hawken notes, Jordan's images are "a supplication to all who look upon them, to harm no more, to be mindful in all that we do, speak, and take."
This richly illustrated volume includes essays by Chris Bruce, Paul Hawken, and Lucy R. Lippard that place Jordan's work within larger contexts of th history of photography, art activism, and environmentalism, and make passionate arguments for the importance and urgency of this artist's message.
Chris Jordan's work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and was recently shortlisted for the first annual Prix Pictet in Paris. Other recent exhibitions include In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster. Jordan lives in Seattle.
Running the Numbers was printed in China by Artron color Printing, Ltd., using soy-based inks on 170gsm Perigord paper, an acid-free, EDF, FSC-certified matt art paper.
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